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gave her up. He got intelligence of her all the way, 

 and every one told him that she absolutely persisted in 

 travelling on. She would not be turned, regarding 

 neither sheep nor shepherd by the way. Her lamb was 

 often far behind, and she had constantly to urge it on 

 by impatient bleating. She unluckily came to Stirling 

 on the morning of a great annual fair, about the end of 

 May ; and judging it imprudent to venture through the 

 crowd with her lamb, she halted on the north side of 

 the town the whole day, where she was seen by hun- 

 dreds lying close by the road-side. But next morning, 

 when all became quiet, a little after the break of day, 

 she was observed stealing quietly through the town, in 

 apparent terror of the dogs that were prowling about 

 the streets. The last time she was seen on the road 

 was at a toll-bar, near St. Ninian's ; the man stopped 

 her, thinking she was a strayed animal, and that some 

 one would claim her. She tried several times to break 

 through by force when he opened the gate, but he always 

 prevented her; and at length she turned patiently back. 

 She had found some means of eluding him, however, for 

 home she came on a Sabbath morning, the 4th of June ; 

 and she left Lock's farm, in Glen Lyon, either on the 

 Thursday afternoon, or Friday morning, a week and two 

 days before. The farmer of Harehope paid the High- 

 land farmer the price of her, and she remained on her 

 native farm till she died of old age, in her seventeenth 

 year. 



Sheep also take pleasure in musical sounds ; and some 

 people even say that they feed better and fatten sooner 

 when listening to the shepherd's pipe. Without going 

 so far as this, we must allow that either curiosity or 

 pleasure makes them very attentive to a tune that may 

 be played to them. Of this a striking instance is given 

 in the Life of Haydn. Describing a day among the 

 mountains of Lombardy, where he and his friends met 

 with a large flock of sheep going to the pasture, he 

 says, " One of our party, who was no bad performer on 



